Crypto & Web3 Startups

Shares is a neobroker and social investing app that lets individuals buy stocks, ETFs, and crypto-assets, with a mobile app launched in France. It also offers Shares Pro, an end-to-end and white-label wealth management platform for financial advisors and businesses.

3 investors

Sharplink is a Nasdaq-listed company (ticker SBET) that runs an Ethereum digital asset treasury strategy, staking and actively managing ETH to grow ETH holdings per share for shareholders through custody, execution, risk controls, and DeFi participation. It also operates an online affiliate marketing business connecting regulated gaming operators with potential customers.

3 investors

SIMBA Chain provides a blockchain-based connected data fabric for enterprise and government supply chains, integrating public, internal, and OEM data to improve traceability, predict disruptions, and support regulatory compliance. It serves defense and manufacturing customers, including the U.S. Air Force and battery manufacturers, and enables EU Digital Product Passport compliance.

3 investors

Morse (also referred to as Sling) is a cross-border payments platform that enables users in 150+ countries to receive US dollars and manage international money transfers, investments, and spending without markup fees. The service provides real exchange rates for currency conversion, local bank account details for receiving payments, and integrated access to US stock investments.

3 investors

Solsniper is an AI-powered trading terminal for Solana memecoins, offering features like MemeScope, trending and holdings tracking, and QuantGPT to help crypto traders. The product is now part of Phantom.

3 investors

Solayer is a hardware-accelerated blockchain and financial platform that enables trading of crypto, equities, and commodities on a high-performance L1 blockchain, along with a crypto-native payment card for global spending. The platform serves traders and users seeking fast, low-cost access to multi-asset markets and on-chain finance infrastructure.

3 investors

Sommelier is a DeFi platform built on the Cosmos SDK, with a bridge to Ethereum, that enables cross-blockchain investment strategies. It brings off-chain computation and machine-learning-driven strategies to decentralized finance while relying on a validator set to avoid centralization.

3 investors

Soon is a portfolio management platform that automates buying and selling of assets across multiple exchanges using strategies like dollar-cost averaging and tax-loss harvesting. The service helps individual investors streamline portfolio creation and rebalancing.

3 investors

Space Nation Inc. develops Space Nation Online, a space opera MMORPG that combines Play-4-Earn and Play-2-Earn mechanics using blockchain and AI, alongside a transmedia franchise spanning animated content and television. The company creates interactive entertainment for global audiences.

3 investors

Sparsity offers Nova, a platform for deploying applications to AWS Nitro Enclaves (trusted execution environments) with on-chain verification, taking code from GitHub to a running enclave. It targets developers building trusted, verifiable applications such as chatbots, oracles, key management, and private compute.

3 investors

Spartan Group is an advisory and asset management firm serving entrepreneurs across industries and asset classes. It operates advisory, asset management, and creative labs businesses.

3 investors

Spectral Labs builds infrastructure for the agentic economy, including primitives, protocols, and markets that let autonomous software agents reason, transact, and collaborate across chains, networks, and domains. Its product category spans AI agent coordination layers and crypto/blockchain-based economic rails.

3 investors

Spicenet builds a brokerage network for decentralized finance, providing access to DeFi venues across multiple blockchain ecosystems. It serves builders and traders seeking liquidity and distribution solutions in the DeFi market.

3 investors

Paysponge provides financial infrastructure for AI agents, enabling them to hold, spend, and earn money through credit cards, bank accounts, and crypto. The platform offers both agent accounts and a payment gateway for businesses to accept payments directly from agents.

3 investors

Spring provides on-chain token distribution and vesting tools for Web3 communities, supporting complex vesting schedules (cliffs, daily, monthly, multi-period), automated token allocation calculations, wallet collection, and a decentralized claim portal. The platform tracks transactions across multiple blockchains and helps teams manage token distributions with gas-optimized smart contracts.

3 investors

Staax is a San Francisco fintech app for peer-to-peer payments made in fractional shares of stock.

3 investors

Stackr provides tools for building app-specific rollups and micro-rollups on Ethereum using web2 programming languages like Python and JavaScript. The platform enables developers to create scalable blockchain applications with flexible architecture and partial on-chain decentralization.

3 investors

stakefish provides validator performance tracking and reporting services for Ethereum and Solana blockchain networks.

3 investors

StakeStone is a crypto-native neo bank offering self-custody accounts with yield-bearing balances, gasless transactions, and borderless payments across DeFi and CeFi venues. It serves global individuals, businesses, and AI agents, providing a value network with a yield layer, KYA (Know Your Agent) verification, and onchain transparency.

3 investors

Stargaze is an NFT marketplace and platform built on the Cosmos blockchain, hosting generative art, PFP, and yield-generating NFT collections. It serves NFT creators, collectors, and DeFi users within the Cosmos ecosystem.

3 investors

Starknet is an Ethereum Layer 2 Validity Rollup that uses STARK cryptography to validate off-chain transactions for greater scalability while retaining Ethereum's security. It offers native account abstraction, the Cairo smart contract language, and privacy features for developers building decentralized applications (DeFi, NFTs, gaming).

3 investors

Start9 promotes decentralized personal computing that gives individuals control over their own data and communications, aiming to remove trusted third parties from the human/computer relationship. Its focus areas include privacy, encryption, and open decentralized network protocols such as the Internet and Bitcoin.

3 investors

STOKR provides a platform for tokenizing and issuing digital securities across asset classes—including fixed income, equities, and private funds—on the Liquid Network, serving qualified institutional investors with regulatory compliance in Luxembourg.

3 investors

Storj provides a globally distributed cloud storage platform used to produce, store, share, and stream media content. It targets media and entertainment companies with workflows for streaming video, audio production, and content distribution.

3 investors